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Two of the biggest US earthquake faults might be linked
Nature ^ | 05 December 2019 | Alexandra Witze

Posted on 12/09/2019 9:15:28 AM PST by Red Badger

Provocative analysis of sea-floor cores suggests that quakes on the Cascadia fault off California can trigger tremors on the San Andreas.

Two of North America’s most fearsome earthquake zones could be linked.

A controversial study argues that at least eight times in the past 3,000 years, quakes made a one–two punch off the west coast of the United States. A quake hit the Cascadia fault off the coast of northern California, triggering a second quake on the San Andreas fault just to the south. In some cases, the delay between the quakes may have been decades long.

The study suggests that Cascadia, which scientists think is capable of unleashing a magnitude-9 earthquake at any time, could set off quakes on the northern San Andreas, which runs under the San Francisco Bay Area.

Several earthquake scientists told Nature that more work is needed to confirm the provocative idea. Researchers have long considered the two faults seismically separate.

Chris Goldfinger, a geologist and palaeoseismologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, will present the findings on 13 December at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. “This is mostly a circumstantial case,” he says. “I don’t have a smoking gun.”

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TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: california; cascadia; cascadiafault; catastrophism; earthquake; earthquakes; fault; notmeinfaulten; notmyfault; oregon; quake; quakes; sanandeas; sanandreasfault; tsunami; tsunamis; washingtonstate
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To: teletech
So they are linked through no fault of their own.
ding ding ding!! We have a winner.
21 posted on 12/09/2019 9:26:08 AM PST by citizen (Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars. All the other genders you make up are from Uranus.)
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To: Go_Raiders

I see what you did there.....................


22 posted on 12/09/2019 9:28:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain............)
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To: citizen

Thank you he said bowing modestly. :)


23 posted on 12/09/2019 9:30:05 AM PST by teletech
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To: Red Badger

When faults unite!!!


24 posted on 12/09/2019 9:39:21 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

I have decided I don’t need to store any more emergency dog food since I have decided to eat the dog first at any sign of trouble.

/s


25 posted on 12/09/2019 9:41:22 AM PST by Cold Heart (.)
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To: Cold Heart

Need lots of rice and soy sauce..................


26 posted on 12/09/2019 9:42:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain............)
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To: DannyTN

Misery loves company.................


27 posted on 12/09/2019 9:43:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain............)
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To: Red Badger

Does that mean we can flush the entire West Coast at once?

My dream has come true!


28 posted on 12/09/2019 9:44:33 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Red Badger

I think I read about that in the 1950s.


29 posted on 12/09/2019 10:02:39 AM PST by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
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To: Red Badger

In 1700, an earthquake with an intensity of about nine on the Richter scale shook what is now the coast of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. It generated a tidal wave that struck Japan. There were no white people in the area at the time, but according to oral tradition among local Indian tribes, the tidal wave apparently wiped out several Indian communities.


30 posted on 12/09/2019 10:05:48 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: DannyTN; SunkenCiv; Red Badger
When faults unite!

Dislexysick faults untie.

31 posted on 12/09/2019 10:06:58 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but ABCNNBCBS donates every hour, every night, every day of the year.)
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To: C19fan

Seattle will likely survive a quake on the Cascadia Fault—mostly. Because the fault is offshore, the most likely damage will be the huge tsunamis that will wipe out the Pacific coastline of Washington, Oregon, and California north of Eureka, CA. We’re actually fortunate that the coastlines of Oregon and Washington are thinly inhabited for the most part.


32 posted on 12/09/2019 10:07:04 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Red Badger

That’s seismology for you; always finding fault.


33 posted on 12/09/2019 10:19:17 AM PST by Migraine
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To: Migraine

Making cruel cracks, too.......................


34 posted on 12/09/2019 10:20:35 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain............)
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To: RayChuang88

“Seattle will likely survive a quake on the Cascadia Fault—mostly. Because the fault is offshore, the most likely damage will be the huge tsunamis that will wipe out the Pacific coastline of Washington...”

Why is that, since Seattle’s on the coast?


35 posted on 12/09/2019 10:22:01 AM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: C19fan
So Seattle, Portland, and SF will go kaput simultaneously...

Wouldn't be unheard of; Sodom and Gomorrah went kaput simultaneously...

;^)

36 posted on 12/09/2019 10:55:41 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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To: Magic Fingers

It’s not on the coast- it’s quite well protected by the Olympic peninsula.


37 posted on 12/09/2019 11:09:30 AM PST by Old Forester
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To: Robert A Cook PE; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks Robert A Cook PE. Almost a catastrophism topic, so, why not? :^)
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38 posted on 12/09/2019 11:10:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Old Forester

I see, thanks. However, from predictions I’ve read re: the far-reaching effects of a tsunami from a 9+ earthquake, it would seem that Seattle is still close enough to be quite vulnerable.


39 posted on 12/09/2019 11:16:23 AM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: CommerceComet

Be sure to keep you gas tank topped off.


40 posted on 12/09/2019 11:22:12 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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